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EL SEGUNDO – As a result of huge sales and high memory usage, Apple’s iPhone is expected to generate insatiable demand for NAND-type ﬂash in 2010, straining supplies for the year, says iSuppli.

The iPhone is a NAND hog, consuming an average of 35.2 Gb of NAND, iSuppli estimates.

The volume is exacerbated by demand forecasts: iPhone shipments are set to rise to 33 million in 2010, up 31.5% compared to 2009. This growth is likely to lead to periods of undersupply for the year, the firm says.

iSuppli forecasts that mobile handsets with embedded flash units will grow to 732 million units in 2010, up 13.8% year-over-year.

Competitive mobile phones, including Motorola Droid, HTC Android Iris, Palm Pre Plus and Pixie Plus, and Google Nexus One, will aim to match the iPhone spec for spec in terms of memory capacity, boding well for NAND flash vendors.

Other products pushing NAND consumption include eBooks, smartphones and tablet PCs. eBooks contain 512 MB to 2 GB of embedded NAND included in each device. Tablet PCs use an anticipated storage density of 32 to 64 GB.

SALT LAKE CITY – Northrop Grumman Corp.’s navigation systems division has broken ground on a facility expansion to increase factory output for its commercial, defense and national security customers.

DEER VALLEY, AZ – The Symposium on Avoiding, Detecting, and Preventing Counterfeit Electronic Parts requests abstracts for its west coast show to be held June 8 – 10.

The deadline for abstracts is April 9.

Symposium topics include electronic parts supply chain; sources of counterfeit parts; proven methodologies for reducing chances of being victims of counterfeit parts; supply chain management tools to mitigate counterfeit part risks; inspections tools and techniques for detecting counterfeit parts; authentication techniques for securing electronic part supply chain; trade and business issues adopted by industry, and law enforcement and international cooperation.

The symposium is organized by SMTA in conjunction with Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering/University of Maryland.

Abstracts can be submitted online at http://www.smta.org/education/education.cfm#counterfeit_west.

BEIJING – Electronics and IT in China registered profits of $26.2 billion in 2009, up 5.2% year-over-year, says the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Revenues of the country’s electronics and IT firms were $750.3 billion during the year, up 0.1% compared to 2008.

The industry's export value, however, dropped to $422.7 billion, down 5.6% year-over-year.

Software revenue jumped 25.6% to $139.1 billion compared to the previous year.

Exports and imports fell 12.8% to $771.9 billion last year, the first drop since 2000. Exports for the sector dropped 12.5% to $457.2 billion, accounting for 38% of China’s total.

Imports were $314.7 billion, down 13.5% year-over-year.